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02/21/2025 The Dave Allen Show - Kevin Jennings, Chris Braley, TJ Meadows · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 2: The country, the United States of America, the state West Virginia,
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  Speaker 3: What we've got here is failure the milky.
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  Speaker 4: As always, telephone lines text lines are open. I want
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  Speaker 4: for me yesterday. Now don't get too comfortable there, TV girl,
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  Speaker 4: I'm back. And to the person on social media who
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  Speaker 4: said they thought she should have the show full time,
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  Speaker 4: I don't disagree. I don't disagree with you, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: under contract and I kind of like it here. They
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  Speaker 4: gave me a desk and an office, so I kind
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  Speaker 4: of like I'm kidding. Coming up a little bit later on,
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  Speaker 4: I want to talk about an event happening tomorrow in
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  Speaker 4: Saint Albans. It's Dementia Friendly Day. What is it. We'll
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  Speaker 4: get into that a little bit later on. And it's
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  Speaker 4: really kind of cool because instead of being just an event,
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  Speaker 4: it's actually a bunch of businesses coming together in Saint
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  Speaker 4: Albans bringing attention to dementia and related issues. We'll get
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  Speaker 4: into that. Plus we are going to put be putting
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  Speaker 4: the spotlight on one of our good advertisers here, PoCA
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  Speaker 4: Valley Bank. They got some big news to share and
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  Speaker 4: the big event happening in Charleston today Downtown Charleston, a
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  Speaker 4: major shot in the art of downtown Charleston from PoCA
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  Speaker 4: Valley Bank. Talk to Kevin Jennings about that coming up
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  Speaker 4: a little bit later on. TJ. Meadows will stop by,
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  Speaker 4: not at the Capital, he and Wilson are not today.
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  Speaker 4: He will actually be here doing a talk line from here,
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  Speaker 4: so we'll talk to him about some things in the legislature.
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  Speaker 4: And a question was posted on social media and it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't directly toward me, but it was on a friend's
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  Speaker 4: Facebook page about why it is that some of the
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  Speaker 4: more ridiculous aspects of the legislature that are thrown out there,
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  Speaker 4: things that have absolutely no chance in the world of passing.
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  Speaker 4: Why do they get so much coverage again speaking about
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  Speaker 4: things that have no chance whatsoever of passage. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to weigh in on that and I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: bring TJ. Meadows into talk about that as well. Plus
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  Speaker 4: I told just a loaded up show. You know, with
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  Speaker 4: everything going on in southern West Virginia with the cleanup
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  Speaker 4: after the floods in places like Mingo County, McDowell County,
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  Speaker 4: everybody's trying to help them out. They took a major
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  Speaker 4: setback in the cleanup when that area got We got
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  Speaker 4: snow here in Charleston obviously the last couple of days,
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  Speaker 4: but they got a lot more than we did. So
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  Speaker 4: when you're trying to clean up a flood situation, areas
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  Speaker 4: like Welch and a lot of the communities in Mingo
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  Speaker 4: County as well, adding six to eight inches of snow
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  Speaker 4: on top of it is really not conducive to flood cleanup.
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  Speaker 4: But we, like a lot of other groups, we meaning
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  Speaker 4: the Radio Ranch here folks, we are going to be
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  Speaker 4: doing a big event next Wednesday to kind of help
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  Speaker 4: them out. We're teaming up with the folks at Union
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  Speaker 4: of this show to make that happen. I'll get into
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  Speaker 4: all the details on that. Plus your phone calls and
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  Speaker 4: when we would talk to our good friend Hannah Gardner
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  Speaker 4: from the Cannaal Charleston Humaine Association. Poor Hannah is feeling
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  Speaker 4: under the weather, no matter of fact. She texted me
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  Speaker 4: about five minutes before the show started this morning and
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  Speaker 4: said she had this stomach. I'm going to get into
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  Speaker 4: all the details, but she's got the stomach thing that's
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  Speaker 4: going around a lot of people have it. So she
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  Speaker 4: is not on the show today, so we do apologize
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  Speaker 4: for that. However, as always, I have got our pet
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  Speaker 4: of the week and you can go over to my
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  Speaker 4: social media page, Dave Allen Radio and also you can
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  Speaker 4: check me out on x It's at Dave A seven
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  Speaker 4: to see the picture of Judge Judy. Judge Judy three
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  Speaker 4: years old. She's a female that is the name Judge
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  Speaker 4: Judy three year old female. She is already fixed, microchip, vaccinated,
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  Speaker 4: ready to go. She is housebroken. They say that she
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  Speaker 4: seems to be cat friendly and dog friendly. Seems to
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  Speaker 4: also be kid friendly, very calm and very laid back,
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  Speaker 4: and knows various commands. Sits lay stand, make me a
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  Speaker 4: grilled cheese sandwich. And I don't know what all the
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  Speaker 4: commands are, but apparently she's very good at that. I
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  Speaker 4: mean this from and Hannah and I were texting back
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  Speaker 4: and forth about the dog last night. This looks like
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  Speaker 4: it would be and I know I say this every week,
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  Speaker 4: but this truly would be the perfect dog for a family.
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  Speaker 4: A little bit shy at first, Hannah tells me, but
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  Speaker 4: just an absolutely beautiful, beautiful dog. See the picture over
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  Speaker 4: on Dave Allen Radio on Facebook or at Dave A
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  Speaker 4: seven on X Let's try to get a home for Judge.
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  Speaker 4: Judy a beautiful, beautiful dog. Now, as far as things
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  Speaker 4: going on at the animal shelter, one thing that I
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  Speaker 4: thought was really interesting is I was looking at through
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  Speaker 4: social media yesterday they were at one point yesterday or
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  Speaker 4: maybe the day before that, they were looking to find
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  Speaker 4: a driver because they needed someone to transport or pick
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  Speaker 4: up I'm not sure which it was. I think it
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  Speaker 4: was transport an animal from Charleston down to North Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm always with the shelter. I'm always trying to
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  Speaker 4: tell you folks, way that ways that you can get involved.
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  Speaker 4: If you're an animal lover, and you know, you know
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  Speaker 4: I am, most of us in the building here are
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  Speaker 4: as well. You can't always adopt every animal. We know that,
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  Speaker 4: you know there's limitations. I like, I like, you would
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  Speaker 4: like to adopt them all, but sometimes you can't. But
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  Speaker 4: there are other ways you can get involved. You can
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  Speaker 4: agree to foster or in this particular case, sometimes they
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  Speaker 4: have animals that are that they have up for a
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  Speaker 4: dot option that are adopted in other states. It's happened plenty,
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  Speaker 4: and they need a volunteer to pick up a dog, cat,
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  Speaker 4: whatever here and drive it to other places, much like
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  Speaker 4: this situation. I guess it was in North Carolina, So
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  Speaker 4: that would be a way that you could help out
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  Speaker 4: if you wanted to help out. The Canal christ Neumane
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  Speaker 4: Association is by doing that is, by just helping to
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  Speaker 4: go different places and to transport these animals now also
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  Speaker 4: tuxes and tails. That's the biggest event they do several
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  Speaker 4: events throughout the year. Tuxes and Tails is going to
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  Speaker 4: be coming up real soon with the Canal Chris's Newmane Association,
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  Speaker 4: and there's information about that available on their Facebook page.
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  Speaker 4: And as we speak, Hannah is sending me some information
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  Speaker 4: to throw out here to you. The numbers are still
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  Speaker 4: extremely high. They're looking at it about three hundred is
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  Speaker 4: what they have right now, and so they are really
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  Speaker 4: really pushing for fosters and adopters right now. So if
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  Speaker 4: you could foster, even if you can't a let's say,
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  Speaker 4: I know you can't adopt them all, but if you
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  Speaker 4: can help them out by being a foster, they certainly
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  Speaker 4: would appreciate that. And also they are in need of
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  Speaker 4: linens and cleaning supplies right now. Those cleaning supplies because
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  Speaker 4: of the flood, the flood damage down in southern West
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  Speaker 4: Virginia might be kind of hard to come by right now,
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  Speaker 4: but those are the things that they are asking for
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  Speaker 4: people to donate right now. They need linens of all
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  Speaker 4: types and they also need cleaning supplies. So that again
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  Speaker 4: is another great way for you to help out our
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's review our pet of the week, and
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  Speaker 4: again the pictures posted over on my social media. It's
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  Speaker 4: Dave Allen Radio or at Dave a seventy on X,
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  Speaker 4: the artist formerly known as Twitter. It's Judge Judy and
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  Speaker 4: unfortunately I didn't get to ask Hannah how they came
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  Speaker 4: up with that name, but it's Judge. Judy is the
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  Speaker 4: dog we're looking to find a home for today. Three
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  Speaker 4: years old female Spade, micro chipped and vaccinated, already housebroken.
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  Speaker 4: Seems to be both cat and kid friendly, but it
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  Speaker 4: is always especially with kids. They advise caution, but seems
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  Speaker 4: to be very cat and kid friendly. Walks well on
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  Speaker 4: the leash, little shy at first until until she gets
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  Speaker 4: to know you. An absolutely beautiful dog, very calm, very
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  Speaker 4: laid back, knows various commands as well. So go get
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  Speaker 4: Judge Judy again. Judge Judy's picture available on my Facebook
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  Speaker 4: page that is Dave Allen Radio, or you can check
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  Speaker 4: says Dave, if that dog can make me a grilled
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  Speaker 4: cheese sandwich, I'll take it immediately. Well, they said, the
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  Speaker 4: dog all kinds of commands, So that's what I was saying.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you know, my content dog with you, just
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  Speaker 4: there and look look pretty all right. Coming up a
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  Speaker 4: to join us a big day at the legislature today.
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  Speaker 4: They're all big days, but there's a couple of key
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  Speaker 4: votes that are going to be possibly happening today, and
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  Speaker 4: we'll talk to TJ Meadows in studio. Spent three days
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  Speaker 4: over under the belly of the beast, he's probably ready
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  Speaker 4: to come back here for a while. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 4: TJ about that. Plus, Saint Albans has done a really
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  Speaker 4: really good job, as a lot of our cities have,
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  Speaker 4: with this whole dementia friendly thing, and they've got a
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  Speaker 4: big day's worth of activities with all the businesses or
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  Speaker 4: at least a great number of businesses in Saint Albans
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  Speaker 4: happening tomorrow. We'll talk to Chris Brayley about that, coming
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  Speaker 4: up a little bit later on in the show. And
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  Speaker 4: I would be remiss if I did not mention that
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  Speaker 4: today is my wife's birthday. So I gotta wish Ruth
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  Speaker 4: and a happy birthday. One year older than me. That's
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  Speaker 4: all we need in one year older than me, So
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  Speaker 4: happy birthday. All right, big stuff from one of our
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  Speaker 4: great advertisers here at the radio ranch talking about PoCA
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  Speaker 4: Valley Bank. Kevin Jennings is what the bank? He joins us. Now, Kevin,
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  Speaker 4: good morning, welcome to the show, Good morning day, thanks
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  Speaker 4: for having thank you for being here today. Now, what
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  Speaker 4: is your title with PoCA Valley Banks.
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  Speaker 10: I'm VP of Marketing and hr all.
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  Speaker 4: Right, so what is the big news here?
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  Speaker 10: Well, we've got an exciting day tomorrow. We are breaking
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  Speaker 10: ground tomorrow. Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Oh tomorrow. I thought it was today, It's tomorrow, said tomorrow. Well,
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  Speaker 4: that's what you get for not reading the press releases
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  Speaker 4: that Sean Meyer sins, I actually thought it was today.
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  Speaker 4: I apologize. I said it was today. It's tomorrow.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, it'll be tomorrow. But we're breaking ground on our
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  Speaker 10: ninth branch Poka Valley Bank. You know, we started in
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  Speaker 10: nineteen oh eight in Little Rome County and we had
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  Speaker 10: a branch there at Walton and a branch in Spencer,
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  Speaker 10: and then in nineteen eighty seven we started coming into
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  Speaker 10: Canall County. We started at Clintonnon and then we opened
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  Speaker 10: out View and in Cisonville and uh not too long
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  Speaker 10: ago Kanall City, but This branch will be right across
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  Speaker 10: from the Old Town centermall or at the Town Center
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  Speaker 10: Mall at the Old Series Automotive lot. And we're excited
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  Speaker 10: to bring new services to the Charleston market.
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  Speaker 4: Now, you guys, as you said, you know, you're kind
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  Speaker 4: of all over the place from your humble beginnings, if
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  Speaker 4: you will, in Rome County. What made you choose that spot,
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  Speaker 4: that particular spot.
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  Speaker 10: Well, we've had a lot of interest from business customers
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  Speaker 10: in Charleston for us to have a branch in Charleston.
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  Speaker 10: That lot, you know, was on the market for a
• 16:36
  Speaker 10: little bit of time, and we looked at it and
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: decided that that would be a good convenient location. Plenty
• 16:42
  Speaker 10: of room there, we have a nice parking lot, and
• 16:46
  Speaker 10: it's just gonna be nice to be on the corner there.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be hard to describe it on radio, but
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: what I mean, give us as best you can a
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: visual what's it gonna look like? And I know you'll
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: have all of the renderings and everything more than likely
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: there tomorrow. And it is tomorrow, not today, it's tomorrow.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: But what's it gonna look like?
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: Uh, it's going to be a modern facility. Uh, it's
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: not gonna look like our standard branches uh more modern.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: It's gonna be two stories. I believe there's it's it's
• 17:18
  Speaker 10: I think with everything going on with TC Energy and
• 17:21
  Speaker 10: the convention Center and then our new brand's coming in,
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: I think that whole corner is just gonna look new
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: and and different. But we will be a modern style bank.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: And I love the fact again that, uh, it is
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: an investment and you know in in that area, as
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: you mentioned TC Energy coming in and uh and the
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: things going on at the Coloseum and convention Center. I mean,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: it's just it's amazing to me. And I've talked the listeners. Know,
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: I've talked about this about everything that's going on at
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: the Cottleseum and Convention Center many times. At the same time,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: you know, a couple of weeks ago, we had we
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: had the Reds Caravan going on at the same time
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: as the Hunting and Fishing show and at the same
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: time as a major you know, a list tree music
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: performer was in town as well. So it's kind of
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, you guys, probably I know you've talked about
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: this facility, probably could have built it anywhere, but you
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: chose that particular location. Yes, yes, we did, and that's
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: pretty good. That's awesome. Actually, I appreciate you doing that.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I know the people Charles do as well. A quick
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  Speaker 4: Talk about the history of Poke Value. You're talking about
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: your humble beginnings there in Rome County. I'm going to
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: go ahead and go out and play captain obvious here.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: The banking industry has changed a little bit since those
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: humble beginnings. But the banking industry, though Kevin, has changed
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: a lot in the last ten to fifteen years as well.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Let's talk about those beginnings and how we got to
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: where we are now.
• 18:51
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: Well, in the early nineteen hundreds, there was an oil
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: and gas boom in Run County and you.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Were not there.
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: I wasn't there.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I want to point that out.
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I I cannot take credit for anything back then,
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: but you know, so we open the first branch was
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: open there to try to take care of those customers.
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: We are community banks, So we're very big and supporting
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: every community that we're in. So, you know, we've looked
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: at just different ways to expand and to grow, to
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: try to keep up any industry, and we think we've
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: done a good job taking care of people. You know,
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: most of our customers we know by name. I don't
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: know every customer's name, but the folks in our branches
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: when you come in, they get to know your name,
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: so you know, we try to put personal service along
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: with having all the financial products that everyone needs. One
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: thing that's also exciting about tomorrow, we're actually going to
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: start going by a new brand, if you would. We're
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: dropping Bank from our name and just going by PoCA Valley.
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: And the reason for that is we're beyond banking. We
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: have more than just a bank. We also offer financial
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: and wealth management. We also have a bookkeeping an accounting
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: firm called Hazing Company. They're a subsidiary of PoCA Valley
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: Bank Shares. Uh. So we're trying to get the message
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: out that not only do we do banking, but we
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: also have other services as well.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: That's kind of interesting and there's a lot of businesses
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: that are choosing choosing to take that route. I mean,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: look at our company. You know, for years we were
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: West Virginia Radio Corporation, and then somebody a couple of
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: years ago said, well, radio is not all we do.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: You know, we do digital, we do video whatever. So
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: thus we kept the wv r C West Virginia Radio Corporation,
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: but it's WVRC Media. Yes. And because more and more
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: businesses are doing more and more stuff these days. Now,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: you know, people probably for a while are still going
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: to call a PoCA Valley bank, right, oh yeah, and
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: that's fine. You know I go turn them away with
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: no no, We'll you know, we'll.
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: Still be a bank. Uh, but we just offer the
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: others services. And we we don't feel like we've done
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: a good job making the public aware of everything that
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: we do offer.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Okay, it's more than just a bank. I've got a
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: I've got a very very quick solution for that. Okay,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: advertising it's been more money now, I'm kidding. You guys
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: are a great sponsor of ours and uh, and we
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: appreciate everything that that you do for us. And I
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: like the fact that you mentioned the word the keyword
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: being community bank, because so off you know, in the
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: world of banking I'm not a banking expert by any
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: stretch of the imagination, but they just keep getting bigger
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: and bigger and bigger, and you guys are offering more
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: and more services. But you're kind of keeping that, you know,
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: that West Virginia feel to you, to to what you do. Yeah,
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: that's very important to us.
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: And you know, uh, most of you that go to
• 21:47
  Speaker 10: community events, you'll probably see a PoCA Valley Bank employee there.
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: We get out into ball games. I mean, we just
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: go different places. Uh, you know, we're just part of
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: the community. So, you know, we feel it's very important
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: for us to stay active in the community.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: How many approximately, you don't have to give you the
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: exact number, but how many people in the area do
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: you employ?
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: We have total and our footprint is Rown County, Kanaal County,
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: Putnam County, but we employ one hundred and twenty eight.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: And twenty eight people. Yes, I love that stuff. I mean,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I love that you're a great employer here as well.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: All right, let's kind of recap because I know you've
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: got a busy day getting ready and again I errred
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: in saying that things were today, they're actually tomorrow. So
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: give us the timeline for everything Tomorrow again.
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: At three o'clock we're going to meet over at the
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: lot and again that's two hundred Chourrier Street, and we'll
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: break ground there and we'll reveal the rendering of the
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: building along with our new brand of Poker Valley, the logo,
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: everything will be displayed tomorrow and then after the groundbreaking
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: ceremony there, which we don't anticipate to take very long,
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: then we'll move over to one thirty five Summer Street.
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: We also have an office there, and we'll have a
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: little reception, just meet and greet and talk to folks,
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: and then probably about five.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: O'clock send you it up, sends you on your way, Yeah,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: and then we'll look forward to this getting underway if
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: the snow ever melts and the winter ever goes away.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: And again your timeline again for people to maybe just
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: be joining us. When when do we hope of hope
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: fingers crossed this thing maybe open.
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: Well, it'll be twenty twenty six, okay, hope spring, but
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: that is a hope.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Well, and sometimes you're dealing with things that are out
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: of your control, you know, supply issues in the weather
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: and so on and so forth. Kevin I appreciate you
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: being here, and I, like others, will try to get
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: used to the new name, which you'll officially kick it tomorrow.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Poka Valley. Yeah, you're not going away from banking. You're
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: just doing a lot of other stuff too, as you
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: have been for sometimes. So it's Polka Valley. I appreciate
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: you being here, Thanks a lot, and we'll see you
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: tomorrow and we'll have you on several times between now
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: and then. And it's a great addition to the area
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: of the downtown Charleston area. I appreciate you you guys
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  Speaker 4: is why is it that the the and to somebody
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  Speaker 4: it's important, I guess, But why is it that the
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  Speaker 4: put those things together get talked about more than anything else,
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  Speaker 4: and the actual work, the actual work doesn't get discussed
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  Speaker 4: as much that the stuff that they're doing. I want
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  Speaker 4: over there as well coming up tomorrow in St Albans.
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  Speaker 4: Several businesses are getting involved with this and it's this
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  Speaker 4: is actually in more than a one day movement. As
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: best I understand, it's been going on in St Albans
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: sometimes kind of a dementia friendly thing. Chris Brayley is
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: with This is Morning, Kristal. What what group do you represent?
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Dementia Friendly Saint Albans.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, and I appreciate you being here. Tell
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: us about the group.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so, Minsia Friendly Saint Albans. We're part of Friends
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: of Hansford nonprofit, just a group of volunteers to committee
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: and it's all about making and helping our city and
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Saint Albans be dementia friendly, and what that means is
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: we go out, we will train willing businesses on dementia,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: the ten warning signs, things that you know, the resources
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: that are in the community to help people with dementia,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: know how to communicate with someone with dementia.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: So we'll do that.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: We will do seminars, We'll have panels of experts come
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: out to Hansford Senior Center for the community and discuss
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: dementia topics. We have a support group for caregivers right
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: there at Hansford Senior Center that our group runs. Also,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: I would like to mention that Hansford Senior Center has
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: started back up their adult day program there. So our
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: whole group is all about just making the city dementia
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: friendly easy for caregivers that are taking care of their
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: loved ones that have dementia, to be involved in the community,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: to come out, to go to restaurants, to just be
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: able to be there and communicate and be a part
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: of our community.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: One of the I guess more interesting things to me
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: about dementia has always been that there are so many
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: different levels of it yea, and not everyone on the
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: surface from it in the same way. Just like any
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: other disability or illness or whatever it is that you
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: want to want to call it, because we've all and
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: we've all had people in our families or maybe friends
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: and neighbors or loved ones or whatever people go to
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: church with or whatever that you know, sometimes they're fine,
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: and sometimes they're not necessarily fine, and sometimes they have episodes.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: And sometimes the episodes happen from the best I understand
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: when they're not in the confines of their own home maybe,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: and like you said in Saint All, buts there any
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: any town for that matter, when they're out in a
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: restaurant or they're out in a store, that happens more
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: often than you would think it does.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: And it's really about you know, if I mean imagine,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: you know, if a waiter in a restaurant or a waitress,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: if they can recognize that the person they're waiting on,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: you know, may have dementia, that they're not weird or not,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: you know, it's not they're not on drugs, that this
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: is a disease, and know how to communicate with them,
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: know how to help them feel at ease, and and
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: and be able to welcome them the back. That takes
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: a lot of pressure off the individual with dementia, the caregiver.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: What we find is that the caregivers a lot of
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: times are apprehensive to come out of the home, right
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: to come into the community and and and be a
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: part of the community. So we we really try to
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: take that stigma away. That's really the main goal is
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: to take that stigma away and welcome those and to
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: help keep them in the community and out of long
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: term care.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: And I love the fact that you pointed that out
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: about you know, if somebody is diagnosed with dementia or
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: some related situation or condition like that, is it's not
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: fair to them to have to be or or their
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: caregivers that might have to be locked up all the time,
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: whether it's in their home or in a facility or whatever.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: They still have They still deserve the right to go
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: to a store, They deserve the right to go out
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: to dinner and think things like that.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: And it's important and it's healthy.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, any physician will tell you that. You know that
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: setting at home, locked away or sitting in front of
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: a television or whatever is not I mean, they need
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: to try to to I would think, engage in activities
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: just like they did before as best as best they can.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: What's the reception been like from these businesses in Saint
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Albans Because I've talked about this with people on the
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: show in the past, have had Mayor James on and
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: different people from Saint Albans in the past that have
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: talked about that Saint Albans is one of those cities
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: that has really been at the forefront of this. I
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: know I've had Delegate and City Council of Walt Hall
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: on the show has talked about this numerous times as well.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Saint Albans is a city in our in the Kanaw
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Valley here that is really gone in my opinion, above
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: and beyond have been on the forefront of this movement.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, you mentioned you know, Mayor James and of
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: course Delegate Walt Hall. They're a huge part of what
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: we're doing as Saint Albans and Walt's a part of
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: our committee. He has been from the very beginning huge
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: advocate for us. And so yeah, it's just it's it's
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: so important you have to have and as I talk
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: to other people that are looking at maybe starting, you know,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: their community to be dimension friendly, you really have to
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: have the support of your your local government. You know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: your city council members, your mayor, local businesses you have.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: They have to want to be a part of that.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: And as you form a committee, you need to have
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  Speaker 3: kind of a cross section of everybody to be a
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  Speaker 3: part of that. And of course you have to have
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: a passion for it. And Saint Albans does I really
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  Speaker 3: complement the city council and the business leaders, you know,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: the local small businesses, and that's the heartbeat of a community.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: And they all are stepping up and being a part
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: of this.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: And I'm looking and I've got some information posted about it.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: I actually have the poster posted on my social media
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: and I'm looking at some of these businesses, places like
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: in Stitches, uh and I want to leave anybody out.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Village Sampler, Vintage Vibes, bammis one of my favorite places, Shuckers.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: And if there's a place I like as well as Shuckers,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: it might be the cafe.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: So now now I'm gonna get hungry, you know about this,
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: But the tap the Kenali Terrace, I ga Mendez pro
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: auto detail of my buddy Joey there from my hometown.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: Big shout out to Joey Mendez. They're a big buddy
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: of mine. So these businesses have stepped up to the
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: plate and they said, hey, we want to be part
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: of the of the solution here and we want to
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: be able to learn as much as we as much
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: as we can.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, And you know, and that's in Dementia
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Friendly Day, you know that started. Mayor Scott James did
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: the proclamation in twenty twenty two that every February twenty
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: second in Saint Aubums is Dementia Friendly Day and it's
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: about bringing awareness to dementia, Alzheimer's disease, other forms of dementia.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: And and our committee went out to these local businesses
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: and started this this kind of movement with on Dementia
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Friendly Day where they'll if you go out tomorrow, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and partake in these businesses you know that you mentioned
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: in others, then they will donate twenty two percent of
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: their profits to Dimension Friendly Saint Albans and we can
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: continue the initiative that we've started many years ago.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: And here's the thing tomorrow. I mean, this has been
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: a horrible, horrible winner. The last couple of days have
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: been bad. Snow's starting to melt, they say, temperature is
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: going to be weren't, believe it or not, in the
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: thirties today and then the forties tomorrow. The snow is
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: going to start to melt away these businesses. I'm gonna
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: get a little plug in, you know, for the mister
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Chamber of Commerce here, I'm going to get a little
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: plug in for these businesses. These businesses, not only in
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Saint Albans, but in other areas have had one heck
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: of a bad winner too, and they've had to close,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: and they've had employees that were not able to come
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: in and things of that nature, and their customers aren't
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: able to get there. It's more important now than ever
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: that we support these local businesses with this winter that
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: we've had. And I'm sure if you talk to any
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: of them, they're going to say, our profits are down,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: our sales margins now, we need help. This would be
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: a great way tomorrow, with this event going on in St. Albans,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: for you to go to some of these restaurants, to
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: go to some of these other establishments and and and
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: help them out, you know, put a little money in
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: their taill and they're going to in turn, as you said,
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: take twenty two percent and give it back to dimension
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: friendly Saint Albans, right.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And you know, as I mentioned, it's
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: a it's a great little cross section of different types
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: of business. You mentioned restaurants, you know, the cafes, another tap,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: you know. But we've got new businesses that are coming
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: on board. Vintage vibes, you know on Main Street, headliners, barbershop,
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: the kind of the IgA.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Is a part of this.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: They were a new member coming on Colonial Interiors, you know,
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: so village sampler Flowers.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: I'm old Maine.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: I mean you can go have a meal, you can
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: go down Main Street and partake and make it a day.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: I know myself and my family are going to be
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: out there tomorrow and partaking in that and just make
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: it a funest of day and get out of the house.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Find yeah. Right, and it's gonna be there's actually that
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: giant yellow ball up in this guy, don't be alarmed.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: It's the sun. It's gonna be out to You couldn't
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: ask for a better day for it tomorrow. So hey, Chris,
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: it's been a great having you on the program. We
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: can you have like a website or Facebook page or
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: something where people could maybe learn more about your organization
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: as a whole.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Dimentia Friendly Saint Albums Facebook page. If you go there,
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: there's all sorts of information and we're always looking for
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: new members for Dimension Faly Saint Aubams to be a
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: part of our committee. We meet the second Monday every
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: month at Hansford Senior Center.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: And I think it would also be maybe relevant for
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: some of our other communities maybe to come to Saint
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Albans or come to one of your meetings. So if
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: you one of the I know we have a lot
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: of governmental types and mayors and council people from other
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: other communities in Kenawha County, Putnam County and the surrounding
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: areas that listen to this show, get in touch with
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Chris and these folks come down to Saint Albans tomorrow
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: and see how it is that they do it, and
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: maybe you can you can get in part of this
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: for your community as well. Chris Brayley, I appreciate you
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: being here, man, Good luck, God bless you everything you're doing.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: We'll talk soon, man, Thanks a lot, Thank you. All right,
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  Speaker 4: now and next Wednesday. And you know the way these
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  Speaker 4: Get out, go visit some of these businesses and get
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  Speaker 4: am to six pm. And again our big shout out
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  Speaker 4: the last few days. Two about all those plow drivers
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  Speaker 4: are about to lose their insurance and have to accept
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I talked to some folks down there. Actually saw it
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  Speaker 4: on social media, I should say, so you know, I
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  Speaker 4: can't speak for the Logan County PSD. I'm kind of
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  Speaker 4: far removed from that area, but do hope that they
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  Speaker 4: get things taken care of really soon there, Texas Dave.
• 44:12
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty election was not stolen, and WVRC media is
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• 44:24
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  Speaker 4: stated rather that he's going after media who said the
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty to twenty election wasn't stolen. If put too
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  Speaker 4: many twenties in there, I think twenty twenty election wasn't stolen.
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  Speaker 4: How does it feel to have the FBI possibly come
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  Speaker 4: after you? All Right, Cash Betel, you can find my address.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to give it on the air, but
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  Speaker 4: a fractured trust in healthcare, inflation, a violent attack on
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  Speaker 11: It's t J.
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  Speaker 14: I'm good. I'm concerned about you. I came in. I
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  Speaker 14: wanted to check on your state of mind. I know
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  Speaker 14: you and Wilson were going at each other's pretty hard
• 45:32
  Speaker 14: earlier this week.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: No, we weren't. It's just day. I mean we started
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  Speaker 4: last Friday and I think it continued this week. Dave
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: and I have a I love hate relationship. He loves me,
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• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: But now Wilson and I we we bring out the
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: fisticuffs in each other. But uh but it's all in
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: good fun. The good thing.
• 45:54
  Speaker 14: I'm there to moderate. Yeah, keep you know everything on
• 45:56
  Speaker 14: the up and up.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, we're uh, we're good well and are good.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: We had to poke the barrel, that's all right, it's
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: all right.
• 46:04
  Speaker 14: So I'm gonna u.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: First of all, give me a preview of what you're
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: you're here today, You're not at the Capitol, but I
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: know you and mister Wilson will be watching closely what's
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: going on at the capitol. Brad mclahanny is there too,
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: of course.
• 46:14
  Speaker 14: So what what's big on the agenda today at the Capitol?
• 46:18
  Speaker 14: So Cenate Bill for sixty is going to be on
• 46:20
  Speaker 14: third reading in the Senate. That is the bill that
• 46:23
  Speaker 14: allows for religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions. They held that
• 46:28
  Speaker 14: bill over a couple of days. It would have went
• 46:30
  Speaker 14: the third reading earlier this week. Tom Takouba, local physician
• 46:34
  Speaker 14: and senator here in the Kanal Valley, wants to speak
• 46:37
  Speaker 14: against the bill. He thinks vaccine exemptions are a bad idea.
• 46:42
  Speaker 14: He'll talk about that. He's been fairly bold and committee
• 46:45
  Speaker 14: in terms of amendments, so he'll speak on the floor today.
• 46:47
  Speaker 14: But the reality is they've that bill is going to pass.
• 46:49
  Speaker 14: It's going to sail through. I think it's going to
• 46:51
  Speaker 14: pass the House. It's going to pass, you know, the
• 46:52
  Speaker 14: governor is going to sign it and it will become law.
• 46:55
  Speaker 14: I think it'll end up in court.
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: Now we're Yeah, it's definitely going to end up in court,
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: which is probably going to be tossed. What do you
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: think it'll be tosting court?
• 47:01
  Speaker 14: I think it is extremely I'm not a lawyer. I
• 47:03
  Speaker 14: think it has numerous constitutional problems.
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: I would agree with that as well. So legislature, do
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: what you gotta do. It's going to be tossing court
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: more than likely, more than likely. But maybe you know,
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: as TJ said, we're certainly not attorneys. We don't even
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: play them on the TV or radio, so we don't
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: know whether it'll pass or not. You've been kind of
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: vocal about this. I have all right, be vocal a
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: little bit more. Go ahead.
• 47:22
  Speaker 14: Anytime the government tells a private or parochial school what
• 47:27
  Speaker 14: to do, it's overreach. In my opinion, this has been
• 47:32
  Speaker 14: compared to well, they let us tell them to have
• 47:34
  Speaker 14: sprinkler systems, or we tell them they have to have
• 47:38
  Speaker 14: lunch ladies who have health cards. That is completely apples
• 47:42
  Speaker 14: and oranges to me. What's next? Are we going to
• 47:45
  Speaker 14: tell a parochial school that they can't teach creation?
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean what's next? I mean parochial schools or
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: private schools are businesses. Their businesses their businesses in the market.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: You pay for your kids to go there, so so
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: it's a business.
• 47:59
  Speaker 14: And look, if enough parents do not like the fact
• 48:03
  Speaker 14: that a parochial school will not allow exemptions, you know
• 48:06
  Speaker 14: what will happen. They won't send their children there, They'll
• 48:09
  Speaker 14: lose tuition dollars. That school will succeed or fail on
• 48:13
  Speaker 14: its policies with the face of the market. That's the
• 48:16
  Speaker 14: way this should be decided. So I have huge problems
• 48:20
  Speaker 14: with telling a private or parochial school what to do.
• 48:22
  Speaker 14: I also think it's a bad idea for the public schools.
• 48:24
  Speaker 14: You can I have two commentaries at wv metronews dot com.
• 48:27
  Speaker 14: Folks can read them decide for themselves. I don't get
• 48:30
  Speaker 14: a vote, but I do think it is extremely in
• 48:34
  Speaker 14: poor judgment to tell a private or parochial school what they.
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  Speaker 4: Will or won't do. Tex says the quality of this
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: legislative session as a result of being forty ninth to
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  Speaker 4: fiftieth in education for many decades. I guess you can't
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: expect much from people who hate New York but think
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: a New Yorker is their savior, says a Texter. All right,
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: so I brought this up a little bit earlier TJ.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: And it was something I saw on social media from
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: a very good friend of mine who posted it all.
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: And I know he's probably listening to the show, because
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: he listens every day to Strength, the one friend I have.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: And you know, he was talking about the and I'm
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: very much paraphrasing here about some of these more silly
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: things like we could go the spruce knob thing that
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: wasn't going to go anywhere, and so on and so
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: forth getting attention and a lot of folks And he
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: wasn't pointing out the media, but he's said a lot
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: of people not focusing on the work that the legislature
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: does meant a lot of it, you know, bipartisan Kaylee
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: Jung and I talk about that a lot on the show.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: That never gets the attention. I get that. But at
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: the same time, when you pick up your timeline on
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: your social media and your ex or your Facebook or whatever,
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: and every other person is talking about this, I went
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: along last week and I'm kind of, you know, contradicting myself.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: I kind of went along the last week and said, look,
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: we just do need to ignore this stupid crap that
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: a lot of these legislators are putting out there like
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: they did last week. However, to play the other side
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: of the card when it's what on your timeline every
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: other person. The two big stories on social media so
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: far in the new year have been the spruce Knob
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: thing last week and the halftime show on a Super Bowl.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: So where are you? I'm talking about things like this.
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  Speaker 14: So our job is to do two things. Inform and
• 50:13
  Speaker 14: entertain something like the spruce Knob built, that's entertainment. Frankly
• 50:17
  Speaker 14: to me, it's okay to talk about that. Our other
• 50:20
  Speaker 14: job is to inform. To your point, ninety five percent
• 50:22
  Speaker 14: of what goes through the legislature will pass fine. It's
• 50:25
  Speaker 14: appropriations for roads, et cetera, et cetera. But that other
• 50:29
  Speaker 14: five to ten percent that is divisive. We want to
• 50:32
  Speaker 14: inform the public so that they can be aware of
• 50:35
  Speaker 14: what their government representatives are talking about. They can pick
• 50:38
  Speaker 14: up the phone, draft an email, go up to the
• 50:42
  Speaker 14: legislature and actually lobby because these are issues that will
• 50:46
  Speaker 14: affect you your family. Back to the school thing that
• 50:50
  Speaker 14: came out of nowhere. It happened really quick. On the
• 50:52
  Speaker 14: private parochial things. A lot of parents in schools have
• 50:55
  Speaker 14: come up to me and said, Hey, I didn't know
• 50:57
  Speaker 14: they were talking about that for my kids private Christian school.
• 51:00
  Speaker 14: I'm glad you brought it up. That's our job to
• 51:02
  Speaker 14: inform and entertain, and we do the best we can do.
• 51:04
  Speaker 14: We always get it right. No, but it's a mixture
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  Speaker 14: of two. And to your point, look, this is radio,
• 51:08
  Speaker 14: the entertainment side. We want to talk about what is
• 51:11
  Speaker 14: buzzing out there. And people, for whatever reason, picked up
• 51:14
  Speaker 14: on this and it was a stunt. It's a bunch
• 51:16
  Speaker 14: of back seaters for the most part, few key people
• 51:19
  Speaker 14: put their name on it.
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: Well what about Okay, we had the one and we're
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: running short on time here. One that's kind of came
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: back up again, and that is the abortion thing, and
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: that is the exemptions. You know, the one Deley get
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: pulled it and had threats against his family, he says,
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: And I don't have any reason to doubt him, and
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: that's totally wrong in my opinion, no matter what your
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: what your thought is. But now another group of legislators
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: put their name on there saying that they may bring
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: this up again. Is that right in the house? Okay,
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: So where is that going? This is the exemption. This
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: is basically doing away with the exceptions of rape and
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: incests in the In the abortion situation, I forget what
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: committee it was assigned to.
• 51:55
  Speaker 14: I'll have to go back and look. But again, huge issue,
• 51:58
  Speaker 14: very important. If you're the person that fail this issue,
• 52:00
  Speaker 14: or if you're a woman that faces this issue, people
• 52:03
  Speaker 14: want to know about it. So even if it's going nowhere,
• 52:05
  Speaker 14: the fact that it's being brought up, could it be
• 52:08
  Speaker 14: brought up again and again, we want to inform and
• 52:11
  Speaker 14: we want to educate. We're not trying to steer the debate.
• 52:14
  Speaker 14: People can decide from there, all right.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: Texas TJ. Thank you for being the voice of reason.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: I love how you can text from the other side. Man,
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: that's really really cool. Thanks honey, I appreciate it. That's
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: my wife. I appreciate that. All right, we gotta go.
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. All our guest today Matt Guitar
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: Murphy as well Talk Line coming up a ten oh
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: six Monday show, Brian Connell of Keep Americans Covered, and more.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: Next weekend's West Virginia Fishing Hunting, an outdoor sports show
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: in Morgantown.
• 52:38
  Speaker 10: I gotta go.
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: Happy birthday to my lovely, talented and lucky to have me.
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: No it's actually the other way around round wis Allen. Sorry,
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: gotta go have fun, love somebody